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by Zena Henry and Denis Chabrol In the face of the imminent collapse of the lucrative Venezuelan rice market, Guyanese rice farmers and millers are preparing for the eventual fallout by having to take lower world market prices for the grain. Guyana will have to “aggressively” seek  search for more rice markets as the State’s only and most lucrative; rice ...

A Land Court Judge and her husband were early Thursday morning severely battered and robbed during an invasion of their home on the East Coast Demerara, but the bandits moments later dropped their prized booty during an exchange of gunfire. Five of the six persons were arrested, police said. Badly injured and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of ...

Government believes that the notebooks provided for nationwide distribution under the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project were of poor quality and there appears to be no linkage between the mini-computers and Internet access. That conclusion was made by Minister of State in the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon following a visit to the OLPF’s operations at Forshaw Street, ...

by Zena Henry Former Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Irfaan Ali has denied statements by government that little documentation exist to support the spending of some $100m in that ministry’s  Rural Development Fund (RDF) project. Minister of State Joseph Harmon made the claim at Cabinet’s press briefing Wednesday July 8, but Ali says that the government needs to look ...

by Zena Henry The government has denied claims by Venezuela’s former Foreign Minister, Jose Vicente Rangel that Guyana is facilitating the infiltration of of Venezuela by international agencies. The two nations are currently embroiled in an age-old border controversy, and reports out of the Spanish-speaking nation insinuate that Guyana is being used by Venezuela’s foreign ‘unfriendlies’ who want to penetrate ...

by Zena Henry General Secretary of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Joseph Harmon, now Minister of State, has welcomed reports that former President Bharrat Jagdeo will be Guyana’s Opposition Leader saying that there are still unanswered questions to be asked of the former head of state. Jagdeo, as Opposition Leader , will have direct lead of his party’s parliamentarians ...

Former President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday rejected claims by the new government that all the monies in the PetroCaribe fund had been squandered and none was available to pay cash-strapped rice farmers. “The money went to the rice farmers. You don’t expect if you are going to give the money to the rice farmers and paying the millers for the ...

Former President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday defended the decision by his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to send several persons with sullied images to the National Assembly. “When they were chosen on the list, these things were not unknown and the party decided to put them on the list to go into the National Assembly so very, very clearly a lot ...

An American woman was Tuesday found guilty for procuring persons to traffick in cocaine and she was sentenced to five years imprisonment. She is 56-year old Dawn Saul-Khan of 2098 Festival City, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Magistrate Leron Daley found the accused guilty of procuring Chaliqua Johnson to traffic 365 grammes of cocaine to the United States of America on October ...

by Zena HenryThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has accused government sacking almost 2,000 Community Support Officers (CSO), but the administration on Tuesday countered by claiming that millions of dollars were paid to many of those persons for doing little or nothing. Junior Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe denied that the CSO programme was being dumped, saying that it was ...